Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacWilliams checked the weather and the military situation. A chalked caution on the briefing board read: "Suchow general situation calm. Fighting going on southeast ten kilometers away. Never circle over or come down to look at fighting area." MacWilliams stopped to talk with other pilots warming their hands over a coal stove. Like MacWilliams, a former U.S. Navy search pilot, they had come to China after the war because they liked flying and could make good money. In a busy month they could net as much as the equivalent...
...pilot pointed toward four olive drab Chinese air force transports across the field. "Looks as if the Chinese air force has just about pulled out," he said. "What are we doing here?" "What are we usually doing?" snorted another pilot. A short, young Chinese chief mechanic broke in: "You take me back to Nanking tonight, huh? I don't want to make no hero...
...Relax. It was 5 in the afternoon before MacWilliams had hustled the second load of soldiers off his EUR-46 at Nanking's military airfield. Soon he was cruising back over the Yangtze Valley rice paddies toward Shanghai. Flicking on the automatic pilot, he leaned back and hung one leg over the arm of his pilot's seat. "One thing you learn fast out here," he said, "and that's how to relax. You just have to put the plane up there, snap on the auto pilot and sit back. It's the only...
...Kiss & a: Kick. The Merry-Go-Round's complex and contradictory pilot regards himself as a man with a mission; he thinks of himself as the conscience of government, a Vigilante riding herd on Washington...
There is one bright spot in the lighting picture; the library system. Widener incorporates old but adequate fixtures in the main reading room; the Union Catalogue and some downstairs offices have the best non-specialized installations in the University. These were installed as pilot-models for Lamont; the new library will use slim-line fluorescent tubing which turns out 20 foot-candles and can be stepped up if required, at no greater operating cost than ordinary fixtures. Keyes DeW. Metcalf, library director, spent three years shopping around and employed a bunch of lighting consultants before deciding on the arrangement...